Get "around" what? You don't want Access to display the correct date? "21/03/2011" isn't the standard date representation that most DB's have agreed upon, so if you're asking how to display a date in a non-standard format, then you'd have to format the date yourself.
How to do that will vary according to the DB. I don't have much experience with Access, but if you're using PHP to retrieve the data then you could simply use [man]strtotime/man on the date string returned by Access and then use [man]date/man to format the date to your desire.
